Download or read book The Adventures of an Ugly Girl written by George Corbett Mrs. and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Adventures of an Ugly Girl" is a book that was written by Mrs. George Corbett, who is also known as Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett. She is from England. During the course of the book, a woman named Dora is told over and over that she is not quite what she seems to be. Dora wasn't going to let that protect her fall back, even though she had to. Instead, she feels good while she's there and just walks around like a "ugly lady." Because of how she looks, Dora's family doesn't like her, and the book is about how that makes her think and feel. It talks about how much pain she feels every day and the bad things that happen to her at home. As the story goes on, readers see how strong and tough Dora is as she moves through the world and does things her own way, which goes against social rules and the idea that a person's beauty is the only thing that makes them valuable. Through its upsetting themes, "The Adventures of an Ugly Girl" looks at society's focus on beauty and how it can change people. It talks about how strong inner beauty, loyalty, and self-appreciation can be when things go wrong.
Download or read book The Adventures of an Ugly Girl written by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adventures of an Ugly Girl (1893) is a novel by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett. While she is mostly remembered today for New Amazonia, a feminist utopian novel which depicts the emergence of an advanced society of women in the not-so-distant future, Corbett was also a pioneering romance and detective novelist. While little is known about Corbett, her surviving novels and stories suggest she was a passionate campaigner for women’s suffrage in an era of conservative politics and traditional values. “‘Why, what does it matter how your hair is dressed, or what sort of a gown you put on? You may just as well spare your pains, for unfortunately nothing that you can do seems to mitigate your ugliness. I’m sure I cannot think where you get it.’” Dora Courtenay is moments away from meeting her new stepmother, but can’t find anything proper to wear for the occasion. Despite her sister Belle’s constant bullying, she finds the confidence to get herself dressed and, with her brother Jerry’s encouragement, goes downstairs to finish preparing the dining room for their guest. As her father and his new bride wait in the next room, Dora, unaware of their presence, makes a crude joke about Lady Elizabeth, only to discover that her insult, however innocent, was overheard. Despite this blunder, the two start off on even ground, leading Dora to believe that she could grow to admire her new stepmother. Soon, however, her step grandfather the Earl of Greatlands makes a surprising request: he would like to marry her, making Dora a Countess. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett’s The Adventures of an Ugly Girl is a classic of Victorian romance literature reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book Big Mouth Ugly Girl written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by HarperTeen. This book was released on 2002-05-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Confessions of an Ugly Girl written by Alice Wasser and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millie Glockenfeld will never fall in love. She will never get engaged. She will never get married. She will never live in a house with a white picket fence and 2.4 children. And all for one very simple reason: She is ugly. Fortunately, one thing Millie has learned over the years is that she doesn't need a man. She's got a good job, a loyal best friend, and a crazy but lovable cat lady who lives downstairs from her. What more does a girl need in life? But then one day Millie meets Sam Webber. He is adorably handsome and absolutely perfect (well, almost). And Sam thinks that Millie is beautiful. Now there's a chance that Millie might get the happy ending she's always secretly wanted... if only she can learn to look in the mirror and see what Sam sees.
Download or read book Home Notes London written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Risk in Children s Adventure Literature written by Elly McCausland and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature examines the way in which adults discuss the reading and entertainment habits of children, and with it the assumption that adventure is a timeless and stable constant whose meaning and value is self-evident. A closer enquiry into British and American adventure texts for children over the past 150 years reveals a host of complexities occluded by the term, and the ways in which adults invoke adventure as a means of attempting to get to grips with the nebulous figure of ‘the child’. Writing about adventure also necessitates writing about risk, and this book argues that adults have historically used adventure to conceptualise the relationship between children and risk: the risks children themselves pose to society; the risks that threaten their development; and how they can be trained to manage risk in socially normative and desirable ways. Tracing this tendency back to its development and consolidation in Victorian imperial romance, and forward through various adventure texts and media to the present day, this book probes and investigates the truisms and assumptions that underlie our generalisations about children’s love for adventure, and how they have evolved since the mid-nineteenth century.
Download or read book The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories written by Dashiell Hammett and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories" by Dashiell Hammett. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Ugly Duckling written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.
Download or read book Ugly Girls written by Lindsay Hunter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the chaotic breakdown of a friendship that shapes and unravels the identities of two rebellious girls in the wake of a stalker's predations.
Download or read book The Ugly Woman written by Patrizia Bettella and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a philological and feminist approach, and drawing on the Bakhtinian concept of the grotesque body and on the poetics of transgression, The Ugly Woman is a unique look at the essential counterdiscourse of the celebrated Italian poetic canon and a valuable contribution to the study of women in literature.
Download or read book The Adventures of Mercury Lane written by James/Lyle Hayhurst/Parascension Press and published by Adventures of Mercury Lane. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adventures of Don Quixote ESL EFL Version with Audio written by Qiliang Feng and published by 百萬英語閱讀計劃. This book was released on 1950 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Book 14, Collection I, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words. Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions. Text Information Readability | 82.2 Total word count | 27864 Words beyond 1500 | 2090 Unknown word percentage (%) | 7.5 Unknown headword occurrence | 4.31 Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 83 Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 262 Synopsis A poor Spanish gentleman about 50 years old loves reading stories about knights. Slowly he starts to lose touch with reality and begins to believe that he is one of these fiction heroes. He finds some old armor and prepares an old horse. He calls himself Don Quixote and persuades his neighbor, Sancho Panza, to be his squire by promising him riches, fame and the governorship of an island. Together, they get away and their famous adventures begin. Don Quixote takes a small inn for a castle, and he believes large windmills to be giants and thus attacks. He attacks a flock of sheep, believing it to be an army, finds a barber basin which he believes to be a helmet…. This book is rewritten from “Don Quixote of La Mancha” by Miguel de Cervantes. This novel is his masterpiece and is considered to represent the birth of modern literature in the 20th century.
Download or read book The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon Delphi Complete Works of Achilles Tatius Illustrated written by Achilles Tatius and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2016-09-11 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sole surviving work of Achilles Tatius, a Greek writer from Alexandria, is a novel in eight books, ‘The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon’, one of the five surviving Ancient Greek romances. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete extant text of ‘The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon’, with relevant illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Achilles Tatius’ life and work * Features the complete text of ‘The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon’, in both English translation and the original Greek * Concise introduction to ‘The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon’ * Includes Stephen Gaselee’s translation from the Loeb Classical Library edition of Achilles Tatius * Images of famous paintings inspired by ‘The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon’ * Excellent formatting of the texts * Provides a special dual English and Greek text, allowing readers to compare the sections paragraph by paragraph – ideal for students * Features a bonus biography – discover Achilles Tatius’ ancient world Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to explore our range of Ancient Classics titles or buy the entire series as a Super Set CONTENTS: The Translation LEUCIPPE AND CLITOPHON The Greek Text CONTENTS OF THE GREEK TEXT The Dual Text DUAL GREEK AND ENGLISH TEXT The Biography INTRODUCTION TO ACHILLES TATIUS by Stephen Gaselee Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
Download or read book When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead A Thrilling Detective Story written by Mrs. George Corbett and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Sexy Beast The Intimate Adventures of an Ugly Man written by Stan Cattermole and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burdened with a face only a mother could love, Stan Cattermole determined to find a woman. Lugging his man-boobs along for the ride, Stan shows Bridget Jones how it's done in this hilarious, heart-wrenching and often outrageous account of his quest for love.
Download or read book The Adventures Of Mary Louise written by L. Frank Baum and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mary Louise books are another series for girls, also written by "Edith Van Dyne". They may be considered as successors to the Aunt Jane's Nieces Series, for the first title, Mary Louise, appeared in 1916, the year after the last of the Aunt Jane's Nieces stories. This edition contains the five original stories written by Baum. These are: Mary Louise Mary Louise in the Country Mary Louise Solves a Mystery Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman
Download or read book The Adventures of Peter Pan written by Oliver Herford and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes all the books that capture the magic of Neverland and show the relentless spirit of a boy didn't want to grow up:_x000D_ The Little White Bird introduces the character of Peter Pan, a free spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up._x000D_ Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens – Peter is a seven-day-old infant who, "like all infants", used to be part bird. Peter has complete faith in his flying abilities, and he manages to escape out of the window of his London home and return to Kensington Gardens. Upon returning to the Gardens, Peter is shocked to learn from the crow Solomon Caw that he is not still a bird, but more like a human._x000D_ Peter and Wendy – Peter Pan is the leader of the Lost Boys on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mermaids, fairies, Native Americans and pirates. He takes Wendy Darling and her two brothers to their magic world and they have many adventures with Peter, his fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and the pirate Captain Hook._x000D_ Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up is a fairy play about a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her two brothers._x000D_ When Wendy Grew Up – Peter returns for Wendy years later. But she is now grown up with a daughter of her own named Jane. When Peter learns that Wendy has "betrayed" him by growing up, he is heartbroken until Jane agrees to come to Neverland as Peter's new mother._x000D_ The Story of Peter Pan is a retelling of the Peter Pan story by Daniel O'Connor._x000D_ The Peter Pan Alphabet by Oliver Herford contains Peter Pan themed rhymes for each letter of the alphabet.
